for
His messages shall go forth and not return to Him void, and they say:
"where is our comfort? why are we in such agony?" for they do not know
that His messages ARE their comfort and His mercy so that they can turn
from their ways, and Yahweh answers them:
Micah 3:1-12
[1] Then I said, “Hear now, O heads of Yaʽaqoḇ, and you rulers of the house of Yisra’ĕl: Should you not know right-ruling,
[2] you who are hating good and loving evil, tearing away the skin from My people, and the flesh from their bones,
[3] and who have eaten the flesh of My people, and stripped off their
skin, and have broken their bones, and have cut it up as into a pot,
like flesh in the cooking pot?”
[4] Therefore, when they cry to
יהוה He does not answer them, and hides His face from them at that time,
as they have made their deeds evil.
[5] Thus said יהוה concerning
the prophets who lead my people astray, who are biting with their teeth
and have called out, “Peace!” They even set apart a battle against him
who does not give for their mouths.
[6] Therefore it shall be night
to you without vision, and darkness to you without divination. The sun
shall go down on the prophets, and the day shall be dark for them.
[7] And the seers shall be ashamed, and the diviners embarrassed. And
they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer, O Elohim.
[8] But truly I am filled with power, with the Spirit of יהוה, and with
right-ruling and with might, to declare to Yaʽaqoḇ his transgression
and to Yisra’ĕl his sin1. Footnote: 12 Chr. 24:20, John. 16:8.
[9]
Hear this, please, you heads of the house of Yaʽaqoḇ and you rulers of
the house of Yisra’ĕl, who despise right-ruling and distort all that is
straight,
[10] those building up Tsiyon with bloodshed and Yerushalayim with unrighteousness.
[11] Her heads judge for a bribe, her priests teach for pay1, and her
prophets divine for a price. Yet they lean on יהוה, and say, “Is not
יהוה in our midst? Evil does not come upon us.” Footnote: 1John 10:12.
[12] Therefore, because of you, Tsiyon is ploughed like a field, and
Yerushalayim becomes heaps, and the mountain of the House like a wooded
height.
Vir die Afrikaanse mense: Miga 3.
